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A brief history

The TRA inheritance survey aims at building an historical database at the individual level on the population of metropolitan France. The sample includes around 70 000 individuals who died between 1800 and 1939. For each individual the data cover a wide range of demographic, social and economic characteristics. They come from administrative sources, mainly from the archives of the Civil ...

The project

The TRA project is a research tool aimed at building a representative nationwide sample of individuals having lived in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Containing an extensive set of data on these individuals, including their occupation, place of residence, education, marital status and assets, the sample is an exceptional instrument for analysing long-term historical developments and the deep-seated ...

Marriage Records

At the outset, the 3000 families survey aimed at reconstructing genealogies of the original TRA families. To do so, it made use of vital registers. The survey was initiated 25 years ago by an historical demographer, Jacques Dupâquier. It had both practical and programmatic ambitions: to gain new insight into the history of the French population via a large-scale survey ...

Books

Dupâquier Jacques, Pélissier Jean-Pierre, Rébaudo Danièle (1987), Le temps des Jules, Paris, éditions Christian.            

Book chapters

Papers

Arrondel L., C. Grange (2001), « Accumulation et transmission du patrimoine sur longue période : l’exemple d’une lignée paysanne de Loire-Atlantique (XIXe-XXe siècles) », in P. Guillaume [dir.], Les solidarités. Le liens social dans tous ses états, Maison des sciences de l’homme d’Aquitaine, 2001, 199-228. Arrondel L., C. Grange (2003), “The Accumulation and Transmission of Wealth Over Long Periods: Example of a Rural ...

Working papers

Bossuroy T. (2001) - Migrations et régime d’héritage en France au XIXe siècle stage ENSAE, juillet-septembre, supervised by J. Bourdieu. Bossuroy T ., Dell F. (2002) - Sur la trace des TRA, mémoire groupe de travail 3e année, ENSAE, supervised by J. Bourdieu. Chanchole M., V. Kaba, J.C. Marchal (2006), « Transmission des inégalités intergénérationnelles en France », supervised by J. Bourdieu et A. Suwa-Eisenmann. Cyterman L. (2000), « La richesse des ...